|
Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
|
|
Secunia Advisory:
|
SA31674
|
|
|
Release Date:
|
2008-09-04
|
|
Last Update:
|
2008-09-05
|
|
Popularity:
|
3,843 views
|
|
|
Critical:
|
Moderately critical
|
|
Impact:
|
DoS
|
|
Where:
|
From remote
|
|
Solution Status:
|
Vendor Patch
|
|
| Software: | Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
Wireshark 1.x
|
|
|
Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
|
Available in Secunia business solutions 
|
|
|
Subscribe:
|
Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities
|
|
| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
|
Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) Various errors within epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc can be exploited to cause e.g. a crash or an infinite loop via specially crafted NCP packets.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 0.9.7 to 1.0.2.
2) An error while uncompressing zlib-compressed packet data can be exploited to cause a crash via specially crafted packets.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.10.14 to 1.0.2.
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
|
|
|
Track this Secunia Advisory
|
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.
Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.
|
|
|
About this Secunia Advisory
|
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.
Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
|
